HVAC & Generators · Maryland

Mechanical Services-Sparks

Sparks, MD · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mechanical Services-Sparks runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical HVAC & Generators workplace, earning a grade C.

Mechanical Services-Sparks: 2.6 TCR = 93% of HVAC & Generators BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mechanical Services-Sparks safety composite

Mechanical Services-Sparks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Mechanical Services-Sparks: 2.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2020

Mechanical Services-Sparks's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.0 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Sparks, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 93% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #19/34
  • PHOTO Texas Shafts, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texas Shafts, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mechanical Services-Sparks in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Mechanical Services-Sparks averages 2.6 TCR (93% of the HVAC & Generators BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Mechanical Services-Sparks TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=3.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Mechanical Services-Sparks falls in its industry

1,750 HVAC & Generators establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 34 HVAC & Generators employers in Maryland.

Mechanical Services-Sparks (167 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mechanical Services-Sparks
Mechanical Services-Sparks (167 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Mechanical Services-Sparks has more employees than the HVAC & Generators median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 3.2 3.2 5 0 0
2019 2.0 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MD · Sparks

1,750 HVAC & Generators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 22 employers in Sparks, MD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Texas Shafts, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soil Installers 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twehous Excavating Company, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Randazzo Enterprises, INC. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Contracting & Environmental Services, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Heights MD Branch 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pompeian, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRS Signal Solutions, Inc 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Becton Dickinson Integrated Diagnostic Solutions Baltimore 2,376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Systems Baltimore 2,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR HUNT VALLEY (MDHUN) 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDHUN - HUNT VALLEY 539 FTE
NAT-TCR Polytek Development Corp. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SP Industries, Inc. 935 Warminster 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR War Memorial Hospital Medical Office Building 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brighton Medical Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nobel Biocare Procera LLC 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barton Supply 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division #22 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni San Antonio Hotel 167 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.